Sanguisorba tenuifoliaFisch. ex Link

WFO wfo-0001131621 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sanguisorba tenuifolia, photographed by Валерия Ковалева
fig. a Валерия Ковалева, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-15 / obs. 143572942
Sanguisorba tenuifolia, photographed by Валерия Ковалева
fig. b Валерия Ковалева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143572626
Sanguisorba tenuifolia, photographed by Валерия Ковалева
fig. c Валерия Ковалева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135670078
Sanguisorba tenuifolia, photographed by Валерия Ковалева
fig. d Валерия Ковалева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118902675
Sanguisorba tenuifolia, photographed by Валерия Ковалева
fig. e Валерия Ковалева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154203894
Sanguisorba tenuifolia, photographed by Валерия Ковалева
fig. f Валерия Ковалева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199935699
Sanguisorba tenuifolia, photographed by Dmitry Kulakov
fig. g Dmitry Kulakov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55959706
Sanguisorba tenuifolia, photographed by Валерия Ковалева
fig. h Валерия Ковалева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143573071

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Sanguisorba tenuifolia is native: Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Sakhalin, Yakutiya AmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralInner MongoliaJapanKamchatkaKhabarovskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeSakhalinYakutiya Korea
Native distribution of Sanguisorba tenuifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Amur AMU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
Inner Mongolia CHI
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Yakutiya YAK

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 23 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Poterium tenuifolium (Fisch. ex Link) Franch. & Sav.
  • Sanguisorba affinis C.A.Mey. ex Regel & Tiling
  • Sanguisorba angustifolia Radde
  • Sanguisorba grandiflora (Maxim.) Makino
  • Sanguisorba jezoensis Siebold ex Miq.
  • Sanguisorba officinalis f. angustifolia (Opiz) Soó
  • Sanguisorba parviflora (Maxim.) Takeda
  • Sanguisorba parviflora var. coccinea Koidz.
  • Sanguisorba stipulata f. alba (Trautv. & C.A.Mey.) Kitam.
  • Sanguisorba tenuifolia f. alba (Trautv. & C.A.Mey.) Kitam.
  • Sanguisorba tenuifolia f. alba (Traut. & C.A.Mey.) Kitam.
  • Sanguisorba tenuifolia f. coccinea Sugim.
  • Sanguisorba tenuifolia f. pilosa H.Hara
  • Sanguisorba tenuifolia f. purpurea (Trautv. & C.A.Mey.) W.Lee
  • Sanguisorba tenuifolia subsp. grandiflora (Maxim.) Toyok.
  • Sanguisorba tenuifolia var. alba Trautv. & C.A.Mey.
  • Sanguisorba tenuifolia var. angustifolia Miq.
  • Sanguisorba tenuifolia var. kurilensis Kudô
  • Sanguisorba tenuifolia var. latifolia Miq.
  • Sanguisorba tenuifolia var. parviflora Maxim.
  • Sanguisorba tenuifolia var. purpurea Trautv. & C.A.Mey.
  • Sanguisorba tenuifolia var. rubra Fisch. ex Link
  • Sanguisorba yezoensis Siebold ex Miq.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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